Just a quick entry this evening. I was really looking forward to today. I had planned to go out on a photo walk with my good mate John. But I woke up feeling dodgy – not a good start. Nonetheless I packed my photo walk camera bag, which unlike my normal take-everywhere camera bag only contained one Fuji S5 Pro D-SLR body, my 24-70mm f/2.8 zoom and my 50mm f/1.8 and 24mm f/2.8 razor sharp prime lenses. I think I also packed my SB-900; just in case.
Anyway, I was feeling dodgy before I left but I felt 100 times worse when we arrived in Fremantle one hour later. It wasn’t Johns driving either – just my churning stomach. Oh, did I mention it was blowing a gale and heavy showers were passing through rather frequently? Well, they were. Am I painting a good picture so far?
So, with our camera bags still in the boot of the car we set off around Fishermans Wharf in Fremantle. To be honest the main reason we were in Fremantle was to visit an art exhibition, the images making up the exhibition were actually taken by an acquaintance of my mate and fellow photo walker. The images were quite good too. It was the sort of thing that at first glance it was a little hard to “see” but the more you looked the more you saw. Cool.
But then came the really cool part. Enter stage left the humble iPhone. For those who have never been to Little Creatures Micro Brewery (that’s such a silly phrase ‘micro’ as the place in enormous!) it as a great venue. Basically it’s a massive warehouse that has been converted into a brewery and funky restaurant. The venue was very much like the artwork on display that we had come to see – the more you looked the more cool things you could see to photograph. Before I knew it I was actually doing the photo walk after all, but I was using the camera I had on me; my iPhone.
I have been reading a lot recently in blogs from my peers that their favourite camera is the one that is closest. Sure they shoot with cameras that still make my mouth water and use lighting equipment that is “to die for”. But they too embrace these little wonders. I really don’t know for sure but just taking a stab in the dark I recon that three quarters of all mobile phones these days have cameras built in. Yes they are not the best quality and no I would never use one exclusively but they are so much fun – and I always have one with me.
So after all that we did end up having a photo walk of sorts; and our camera bags never left the boot of the car. In hindsight I would have got some really awesome images if I did have my camera bag with me. But you know what – I had fun, took some great little images, post processed them and even uploaded them to twitpic all using my iPhone – the only camera I had with me. I couldn’t have done all that with just my D-SLR.
I will always shoot with high end equipment when the need arises. But I finally can say that today, I loved the one I was with and had an absolute ball with the only camera I had on me at the time. I think this could become a trend…
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